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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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If CEO Pay Was Measured Properly, It Would Look Even More Outrageous

Dec 22, 2016

Research funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking has revealed that the SEC reports executive compensation using a formula that routinely undercounts it

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Older workers in Rust-Belt States have been economic losers since Reagan

Dec 6, 2016

Slight increases in national-average earnings for older workers mask long-run stagnation and decline in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – states that unexpectedly voted for Donal Trump

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India: Demonetization and its Discontents

Nov 28, 2016

By suddenly eliminating two widely used bank notes, India’s government risks undermining public confidence in the basic means of exchange

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Trump Election and the Future of U.S. Global Leadership

Nov 28, 2016

Surviving the geopolitical and economic challenges of the coming years requires a world order less vulnerable to the vagaries of U.S. elections

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Obama’s People and The African Americans: The Language of Othering

Nov 4, 2016

Language has always been a way to divide, conquer, classify, and control, but it also helps to constitute who we are and what we think. 

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Yellen Challenges Economists Amid Elusive Great Recovery

Oct 24, 2016

Like the Great Depression and the stagflation of the ’70s, the anemic growth of the U.S. economy can’t be understood or remedied without changes in economists’ thinking